Welcome back Whiney

tardy here, but glad it's not as bad as it could be and so many friends came through for you. those photos are pretty distressing; good to see your sense of humor intact tho!

i'm so glad you are okay, whiney, and that you didn't lose too much of your stuff.

there was another thread about this also, it must have slipped down the page.

and darragh, i had no idea you'd suffered such a horrible tragedy, my deepest condolences.

Firemen were hacking away at the walls like Drake hacking away at a metaphor.

^^^quality blogging

Against fireman’s wishes and defying any modicum of common sense, my first instinct was to dive inside the burning building and save my laptop. This I did. I’m typing on it now. I have a book about Hipster Puppies due in a few weeks, and I’d rather die in a blaze than fuck up an assignment that awesome

glad you're okay whiney - hope this doesn't come off as callous or w/e, but there are a lot of cheap solutions to backup your files online, e.g. carbonite, and it's a good idea to have off-site backups of your data in general... so you don't run into burning buildings!!

other thread is on 77: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77

snuff it out with whiney g

oh man here I was thinking this was whiney's-back ilx drama and it's irl sadness

glad you're ok bud

(also I echo the condolences to darraghmac)

hi Whiney, I was on some punishingly long driving-from-place-to-place action yesterday but stopping by this morning to say condolences on the fire & glad you are OK man

Grabbing a laptop out of the flames and immediately blogging about the fire = best example of "firsties" yet?

Grabbing a laptop out of the flames and immediately blogging about the fire = best example of "firsties" yet?
--Position Position

"immediately" = 41 hours later, but OK

glad you are safe man

it was pretty surreal to see this on twitter -- your place fucking burning down obv seems like something that will never happen to you or anyone you know -- anyway good to see that it ended up probably as good as it could've -- too bad it wasn't the free drake show that caught on fire

I thought the Drake show caught on riot

too bad the free drake show riot didn't catch on fire

that's dangerously close to my platonic ideal of "entertainment"

sorry i didn't see this sooner whiney, glad you're ok, and that you didn't lose more than you did. what a terrible thing.

really glad you're ok, chris

^^^ use an ilxor's real name when shit gets heated

GET IT???????????????

groan

dad joeks

bite me, nick

fuck you, JERRY

Boy, I am glad to hear things did not turn out so bad as they could have.

You and me both!

(^^ sense-of-humor-wise, I am still kinda laughing about how multiple music writers showed up with boxes and Whiney said "this is like Da Capo's Best Helping-out-after-a-Fire 2010." it would probably have been faster to get five reviews of the fire than actually clean anything up.)

(umm obviously Whiney has friends who aren't music writers, but the music writers are the ones where I know who they are)

Hahaha, thanks for remembering my jokes because I def was too frazzled to remember them! Yeah, including me it was FIVE music writers and 100 boxes.

totally behind the curve here but glad yer ok and so is most of yer stuff dude

sorry that happened--I lost all my stuff in a fire 7 years ago (woke up to find my ceiling on fire with flaming bits falling onto the bed.) Got a pretty big settlement from the lawsuit, but that took 4 years.

Do they know what caused it yet bro?

Nope!

any idea when your place will be habitable again?

btw, i almost gasped when i read this:

Against fireman’s wishes and defying any modicum of common sense, my first instinct was to dive inside the burning building and save my laptop. This I did. I’m typing on it now.

that's a lot of risk for a laptop.

anyway, i said it before, but it's worth repeating: very, very glad to hear you're okay.

i bet it was some schmo trying to microwave a hot pocket

it was someone from the future trying to stop the publishing of the hipster puppies book, which ends up leading to the end of civilization as we know it. whiney from the future killed the arsonist but died in the fire.

now who knows what will happen...

Whiney, have you done anything about smoke damage? My memories of the fire in my apartment a little distant (it was 1982), but I remember that smoke damage was pretty deep and instantaneous and the smell of soot won't go away until you address it properly -- won't wash out of clothes without certain chemicals, all your recovered stuff (books, records, jewel cases, etc etc) has to be treated; when it's just sitting in boxes it's just soaking in the smell. I also remember that we were so drenched in the smell, having moved lots of the smoky stuff we salvaged with us to a hotel, that we didn't at first notice it, but man, the people who worked in the hotel sure did.

Fire insurance can go a long way toward this type of thing. Hope you had plenty. Anyone reading this who isn't really interested in experiencing all the details of this type of nightmare firsthand -- GET FIRE INSURANCE.

My girlfriend and I are friends with Rose and were there all day wed packing her apt and moving it to uhaul on 4th ave. Had no idea music critic and fellow ILXor was doing the same in downstairs apt. I'd been to your building before, it was a good location and the yard was nice except for the giant slugs. Sorry you had to go through that and good luck...

Sorry you had to go through that

The fire, or the giant slugs? o_O

wow just read this, sorry to hear about all this Chris, glad you're ok though!

Wow, this practically counts as a FAP (Fire After-Party)

Whiney, you got your amazon wishlist stocked yet?

Whiney, I know you're kinda not on ILX much right now, so just wanted to ensure you saw this:

http://pitchfork.com/news/39202-local-natives-schedule-fall-tour

came across this on the internet randomly.

http://i26.tinypic.com/2hs19p0.jpg

*the complete randomness of where I found it being so odd.

"hipster runoff"?

"ban max"?

sorry

^^^

also, does everyone have forks killfiled but me?

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Sunday, January 27, 2013 10:10 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what you think?

that in three years you'll be talking about a hot new song from pop sensation tessa netting featuring 2chainz

o is gr8080 itt? policing it i bet!!

tessa is worse than Amanda Palmer. Thanks forks.

zvookster i see what you did there

and i u man

Fellas. Fellas.

Has your girlfriend got the butt?

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2007. early or late for this soon to be ubiquitous internet meme of misattributed logos and photos?

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